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Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Canoga Park Block Party 2024
His name is Cash. Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Canoga Park Block Party 2024
Gotta start somewhere, even if it is second…
Am I lucky this morning?
Linda Burney survived a “mini-stroke” after undergoing surgery for a hole in her heart in 2020.
The Indigenous Affairs Minister confirmed the medical issue had caused an alteration in her voice and, as reported by The Age, “misremembered key details of the event, including the date”.
The Age reported the 66-year-old is now “fighting fit”.
Indiginee Ngangkari not good enough for her?
My sister spent some time there with Cohen and Co. Interesting times she said … .
BTW, wonderful version of Hallelujah by a very young British woman.
Hallelujah – Lucy Thomas
This also …
Moon River – Breakfast At Tiffany’s – Lucy Thomas
What is Burney’s opinion on using white man’s magic to diagnose and rectify her medical condition?
Seems Vivek has been swotting up on foreign policy.
Burney is fully assimilated.
By her own account, iirc, she didn’t even meet her aboriginal relatives until she was in her 30s.
More to the point might be the question of the prognosis of a 66 y. o. woman with a hole in her heart living in one of the remote settlements Burney is so supportive of.
The members of the Remuneration Tribunal (ci=overing politicians, judges, MPs, senior public servants and military officers) know who approves their well-remunerated extensions in their current positions.
out of context … how?
… covering…, should proof read!
Nobody trusts anyone in authority today. It is one of the main features of our age. Wherever you look, there are lying politicians, crooked bankers, corrupt police officers, cheating journalists and double-dealing media barons, sinister children’s entertainers, rotten and greedy energy companies, and out-of-control security services.
– Adam Curtis
“BTW, wonderful version of Hallelujah by a very young British woman.
Hallelujah – Lucy Thomas
Thips also …
Moon River – Breakfast At Tiffany’s – Lucy Thomas. “. Thank you John H -she has a
sister too and their harmonies gave an angelic quality -lovely to hear
article referenced by BoN:
so putting two and two together and joining the dots… 1) there’s a new super-AI behind locked doors in Google which is going to take over the missile defense systems, and 2) all AI are commies.
=> We’re so screwed.
If you know anyone in Indo, tell them to prep for a banger EQ! ( I hope I am wrong )
We’ll get movement soon in OZ.
Makes we wonder about the 1968 Meckering earthquake as to what was going on in the North at the time.
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Yeah you’re right Wally
Exactly the situation in Russia and her satellites in Soviet times. And they had good reasons too.
Bet they loved that.
Them just going about their own lives and then hoving in upon them regaling them with tales of the unhinged racism she had experienced.
That’s it.
Off to the travel agent to book tickets.
See you in the Land of the Rising Sun, Razey-san.
…Them just going about their own lives and then her hoving in upon them…
Her own mother took one look at her when she was born, and handed her over to her great aunt and uncle to raise.
I told you guys Morocco was cool, it’s just their gay Muslim King went full COVIDian.
Just checked…Burney would have been 29.
With a Dip Ed and a job in the Aboriginal Education Unit (Policy) of the NSW Department of Education, despite not being raised as an aboriginal.
On his twitch channel dutchsinse is predicting a follow-up M6.0+ quake in either Sumatra, Solomons, or Japan, during the next 10 days.
No sign of any prior prediction of this morning’s Bali “deep 7”.
Sri Lanka Day 2. The locals are very friendly. Walking on the beach we were visited by one person trying to flog us wares, poverty is an issue. Further along a local wished us welcome to Sri Lanka. Negomgo is a suburb just north of Colombo. We are staying in a hotel among a strip of hotels along the beach. Regal Reseau. The peak season is around November so the hotel is less than half full. The plumbing works, power points are interesting in that when you plug your usb cable into the wall the ceiling fan turns on/off repeatedly. Not many high rise and lots of older buildings which look even older due to the ravages of a tropical climate. The 130 km canal built by the Dutch is still in use, mostly for fisherman to park up their small boats along the banks. Local industry is fishing with many fish laid out on mats to dry. No seagulls thankfully. There are larger vessels that go further so I was surprised to see tuna in the fish markets. No refrigeration in the markets we saw. Plenty of rubbish around, thankfully no plastic straws! Today we venture inland to see elephants. Just started raining.
Breaking, from the Oz.
I’m shocked.
No shame
Good luck with that.
Seems Vivek has been swotting up on foreign policy.
America is only nominally Christian, if that, and hence it is increasingly common for conservatives to identify as non-Christian or pagan. The campaign of Vivek Ramaswamy is a good example of this. While he may preach a familiar set of conservative policies, his social and religious views sound more similar to a mid-decade liberal than a traditional Christian conservative, as he is a vocal and devout Hindu. This is not to rail against his faith but to point out that he is a glowing example of how one can be uber-conservative and non-Christian. If it is the essence of conservatism to preserve and to change slowly, and our culture is no longer Christian, no wonder our conservative movement is less than Christian. There is little Christianity in our nation to preserve!
What Exactly Are Conservatives Conserving?
One of the main features of totalitarianism is criminalisation of dissent. Not too far away now!
Dumbgeld doubles down on stupid.
On Charmian Clift/ Johnston: a program on SBS last night looked at a woman trying to live off grid. She was quite striking in looks. At one point in her life she’d discovered she was adopted and set out to find her birth mother. Thrilled to find her ma was Charmian though she was long gone so no meetup possible.
Colonel Crispin Berka
Aug 29, 2023 12:47 PM
On his twitch channel dutchsinse is predicting a follow-up M6.0+ quake in either Sumatra, Solomons, or Japan, during the next 10 days.
No sign of any prior prediction of this morning’s Bali “deep 7”.
Prediction? Oh FFS!
Let’s do it again.
7/04/2019 — HOW TO FORECAST AN EARTHQUAKE — Fundamental principles
And Colonel it’s even leftier than ChatGPT, which is very lefty.
Even Worse Than ChatGPT (28 Aug)
He tried out ChatGPT on climate stuff some time ago and found that it would start dogmatic lefty but would adapt as real world science data was provided to it. Goolag’s AI just stays dogmatic.
As per the article I linked it is GIGO all the way down, and now AIs are feeding other AIs with fake data, who are then feeding other AIs. I recall one scifi novel where they found that every time they tried to produce an AI it went insane, and had to be turned off. That’s starting to look more likely than not.
It’s all becoming clear as to how the latest MV-22 Osprey hit the deck in the NT:
Now awaiting findings that:
a. Parallel parking should not have been attempted by Captain Eleanor under any circumstances; or
b. A garbage truck 20 times larger than the Osprey was involved yet not seen prior to the stack.
what a load of narcissistic drivel
My heart bleeds for you. If anyone should be denied “procedural fairness” it’s this creep.
Did Drumgold grow up next to Albo!?
Good.
dutchsinse:
Premiered 52 minutes ago
No robo voice in this one! lol
This is a full 30+ min long update covering the deep M7.1 and expected spread, including a new forecast for multiple locations in the West Pacific.
Warned areas include next to the deep M7.1 in Indonesia of course, but multiple other locations including Japan, Nepal / India , Solomon Islands, Kamchatka, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and multiple locations across the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Mideast.
Simply put, across the board is a good description of where the increase we are expecting will spread… as for size, I’m looking for 1 magnitude increase across each area.
The locations named are shown in the video , too many to type out here.
This week going into next week (next 14 days) should be rough sailing on the high seas of seismic activity.
8/28/2023 — Full Earthquake Update — Be prepared for large activity this week across the board
Darn, my mistake, dutchsinse gave a forecast 7 days earlier which was approximate to what later happened.
https://youtu.be/zq8stXjKAr8?t=801
He predicted four M6s and a larger one “right at the juncture where all the plates meet” which would be “Indonesia”. The area indicated in the centre of the video was closer to Halmahera or Sulawesi than Bali, but “Indonesia” was the only region he said by name in the forecast. This was to occur during the coming week, that being from 21st to 27th August. So the forecast at a 7 day leadtime was only off by 1000km and late by 1 day. In other words it was quite accurate for earthquakes.
I don’t know if he achieves this precision routinely.
the things you can do and say when you saddle up the Noble Cause Unicorn and ride into battle
almost invincible
… almost
Shane Drumgold takes legal action against Sofronoff Inquiry
No doubt the rate/tax payers of the ACT will be picking up the tab.
Would have been the first thing in his exit package.
The whole concept of “Intergenerational trauma” has a lot to answer for!
Re Albo & his package.
My biggest issue is that his tax payer funded pension will end up being a formula that takes into account his length of “service” & final package.
These defined benefit programs have to be capped.
He obviously deserves many coffees.
Dot
Aug 29, 2023 1:49 PM
So the forecast at a 7 day leadtime was only off by 1000km and late by 1 day. In other words it was quite accurate for earthquakes.
He obviously deserves many coffees.
Ignorant f*cking idiot.
Only works for virgins. Shane will have trouble convincing the unicorn on that score.
I’m ignorant because I doubt a forecast 1000 km away, 24 hours late, 10 times stronger than the earthquake and another three were predicted?
No.
Dutchsinse is too dumb to realise how wrong he is.
Knuckle Dragger,
Go easy on Capt Eleanor.
You try holding the plane steady with the cargo moving around.
Yeah, nah.
Would of taken less effort to do things by the book.
Seems the Bench has already made up his mind?
Mmmyes.
Throw scores of predictions out there and 1 or 2 will land somewhere near the target.
Dot
Aug 29, 2023 1:57 PM
I’m ignorant because I doubt a forecast 1000 km away, 24 hours late, 10 times stronger than the earthquake and another three were predicted?
No.
Dutchsinse is too dumb to realise how wrong he is.
Shooting your mouth! Keep going.
Or – or:
His subscribers (aka ‘meal tickets’) are too dumb to realise how wrong he is.
There are 55 significant earthquakes every day. 770 quakes per fortnight.
A five second search reveals:
Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 square miles).
At any given point, given all of the above, I could predict (or ‘forecast’) an earthquake every 14 days in the 14th largest country on Earth, and I would have a 100% success rate.
Give me cash, you gullible plebs.
Snapitty snap.
And sitting astride some fairly active seismic zones.
Predicting earthquakes “in Indonesia sometime soon” is like a bit like backing Black Caviar at the Wycheproof picnic races.
I love this. Dutch and his track record is astonishing and all the f-heads come out thinking they know otherwise.
The whole concept of “Intergenerational trauma” has a lot to answer for!
Tell me about it! Got a mouthful this morning over the phone regarding all the injustices done to her (by husband and me) over the last 50 years! The Xmas present of MG at 18, yearly OS holidays, paid for uni accomodation, assisted house buying when married, assignment of considerable inheritance in her favour…and further indulgences I am too embarassed to list…….
The Stranglers – Skin Deep (Official Video)
Yes. Yes, it is astonishing how many simpletons give him cash to be told ‘there might an earthquake within 1,904,569 square kilometres of you at some point in the next fortnight’.
That’s disgraceful Vicki. She should be ashamed of herself.
I’m on the sidelines in this contest, but can’t let that one by. 😀
Shakin’ Stevens – You Drive Me Crazy
Knuckle Dragger
Aug 29, 2023 2:33 PM
Dutch and his track record is astonishing
Yes. Yes, it is astonishing how many simpletons give him cash to be told ‘there might an earthquake within 1,904,569 square kilometres of you at some point in the next fortnight’.
F-whit status confirmed.
Re Drumgold
I am a bit surprised that only Feeltheburn has postulated a theory that sees a settlement of Drumgold’s suit as a payout. This is surmise of course, and I make no allegation. But after Brittany’s deal, the question arises. We’ll see I suppose.
If the suit goes to trial, we may learn whether Drumgold’s dealings with ACT government operatives were more extensive than we know now.
That’s disgraceful Vicki. She should be ashamed of herself.
Thanks Calli. Sorry to unload. I know we are not Robinson Crusoe in these matters – as I observe on the Cat from time to time. I am tempted to ascribe her outbursts to post Covid PTSD – but they actually got through that without losing jobs or anything else.
We have two wonderful grandchildren, and are very grateful for them.
We have two wonderful grandchildren, and are very grateful for them.
Vicki, you focus on them.
I’ve seen AI renamed as Simulated Intelligence (SI). Makes sense to me
One of the more remarkable characteristics if intergenerational trauma is that it affects later generations for more than the earlier ones far closer to the supposed trauma.
The ancestors of those poor people so crippled in our current age were far more functional, skilled, confident, and dignified than the current toddler-like mob.
Sometimes you just have to. And…she’s way too big to put in the naughty corner!
Enjoy those grandchildren and don’t forget to be as subversive as you can in the best possible way. Sitting and sewing or reading or talking or cooking or out in the garden doing stuff that they never do at home. You will be the treasure of their hearts.
It’s fashionable currently to be a victim and to persuade others to be victims too. Some people are dumb enough to buy into this and look for someone to blame. Parents are an obvious choice.
It’s a bit sad that offspring should be credulous nongs, but they often are. It is what it is, and little to be done about it.
It’s on nowhere the same scale, I know, but a friend of mine had teenage daughters, who were becoming rather precocious about designer labels and brand names.
Their school arranged for them to spend one term holidays, working in an orphanage in Cambodia…they returned with a completely different outlook on life….
They’ve just voted themselves a 4% pay rise in the federal parliament, so stitching up taxpayers for a payout for one of their mates would not surprise. I’m guessing ‘polite’ company think that the payout for Britneh was a good thing and the same circles would point to all the usual disadvantage palaver that has been evidenced for Drumgold as the reason he was the first non silk to be appointed DPP, meaning they would likely be ok with other people’s money financing this guy’s retirement on the velvet.
I bet he takes a holiday in the Maldives shortly after, probably post it on facebook too.
Enjoy those grandchildren and don’t forget to be as subversive as you can in the best possible way. Sitting and sewing or reading or talking or cooking or out in the garden doing stuff that they never do at home. You will be the treasure of their hearts.
Calli, my grandson was very impressed when he came to stay at the farm with his gorgeous girlfriend. I provided a picnic setting down by the creek under the casuarinas – basket with lunch of meatloaf & salad, wine, chocolates & cake that the clever girl had cooked to bring to her host! Also a blanket! Husband had to go down at nightfall to get them, beeping the horn on the Gator as he approached!!!
Bing chat couching the flight of chinese property investors to foreign markets.
Vicki
Time to change the Will?
Their school arranged for them to spend one term holidays, working in an orphanage in Cambodia…they returned with a completely different outlook on life….
Actually the parents took them to Cambodia – not to an orphanage, but the grandchildren were pretty shocked with the poverty, and the condition of the cattle. The grandchildren are pretty well adjusted – its the parents (Gen Xers) who seem to have this festering resentment of Boomers.
There’s nothing quite so fractious as a mother/daughter relationship. Only a mother can rile her daughter and only a daughter can rile her mother.
Last weekend, my mother was collecting me to go and visit my stepfather followed by a visit to my sister. I’d rushed home from Pilates and changed quickly so I could be on time for her. Anyway, I got into her car, and my mother looked me up and down and said, “you don’t have any lipstick on, you’ll need to put some lipstick on before we go anywhere”. I cannot begin to describe how my blood began to boil. I shouted at her “I knew you’d make a comment about that”, and then she shouted back at me “I’m not driving anywhere unless you put on some lipstick”. My mother really truly believes a woman can’t leave the house without lipstick.
And guess what happened, I ended up putting some lipstick on!
PS, having read your later comment about your grandchildren, I should add “… Will to favour exclusively your grandchildren”.
I think anyone dealing with Drumgold at this point will be playing with a straight bat and looking to use the pads to anything outside leg.
Wouldn’t it have been best to put some lipstick on and drive there yourself behind her?
Boambee John – change the will?
When I said she had been “assigned a considerable inheritance in her favour” – I was referring to the entire inheritance from my parents assigned (by me!) to her. I figured husband and I didn’t need it.
Sorry, my misunderstanding.
That would rankle.
PS, having read your later comment about your grandchildren, I should add “… Will to favour exclusively your grandchildren”.
That would be able to be contested in court. Assigning a reasonable amount (taking into account the assets already held by the beneficiary) is a better way to go.
I get on well with all my kids (actual ones and their spouses). We came to the conclusion long ago that all eight of us (I count the Beloved) were the most annoying people on the planet and our only hope of survival was to form an invincible bloc.
It has worked…so far.
I bossed up my mum the other day…over the phone. Safer that way as I’d risk having my ears boxed in person.
She has a new “walker”, but was reluctant to use it. What are you going to do with it then – a line item for me in the will? 😀
Dispatched the Beloved to her place to accompany her as she waddled to the end of the street and back. She always obeys him. Apparently she was happy as a lark and had a grin from ear to ear.
One of life’s better secrets – have dependable deputies who are bigger than you.
It’s on nowhere the same scale, I know, but a friend of mine had teenage daughters, who were becoming rather precocious about designer labels and brand names.
My youngest visited Auschwitz whilst on a European coach tour and came back a “changed” young lady ..
Why do you hate me? I have never helped you. – Chinese proverb
Love it, Calli!!!
I have esoteric ones on my desk like “The Light shineth in the darkness, & the darkness understandeth it not” (John 1:5) & “All is held together by the Word” (Ecclesiastics 8:4).
But I am going to add the Chinese Proverb!!!
“I bossed up my mum the other day…over the phone. Safer that way as I’d risk having my ears boxed in person.”
My sister bosses my mother around all the time.
I bet she’s braver than me and does it in person! 😀
My youngest visited Auschwitz whilst on a European coach tour and came back a “changed” young lady ..
We took daughter to Dachau when she was about 10 years old. She blames us for the upset it caused.
There is a certain element in my family tree – Gen Xers – with the same resentment – they want all the trappings – the financial independence, the investment portfolio – without doing any of the work.
“calli
Aug 29, 2023 4:01 PM
I bet she’s braver than me and does it in person! ?”
LOL…yes she does.
All whilst my rates went up 50%, and car and house insurance by 30% +
I rang my MiL to thank her for the shirt she gave me for my birthday and told her how nice it was to have her visit. Her response was “not many would say that about their MiL”. I replied I wouldn’t say that about my own mother. We don’t tell any of our children what to do. Let them make their own mistakes.
Upthread it was noted that men have no feelings according to some.
Scratch that idea. Funeral today to send off a man who was 41. Cancer took him away. Grown men absolutely showed emotions which should be, well, not celebrated but acknowledgement that we do have strong emotion.
Was one of the great send offs. Vale.
Yes, it’s good to see the government so nimbly addressing the cost of living increases. We can’t have our politicians struggling financially. That would be obscene.
“Anthony Albanese gets a massive pay rise – and so does every single minister and elected federal politician as Australians struggle with the cost of living”
It’s a slap in the face to all of us.
We took daughter to Dachau when she was about 10 years old. She blames us for the upset it caused.
Pivotal moment in my life.
One doesn’t tend to whinge for quite the while after you go to camp.
Chilling.
Cap politicians pensions now.
Trots gotta trough.
Biggest pay rise in ten years.
“Fvck you, Jack, I’m all right.”
Also, the pay is just so good no matter which side of the room you seat-warm…no wonder the LNP can’t be fussed actually winning.
Far easier to occupy a holding pattern of safe seats and bring home the bacon that way – maximum effect for minimum effort.
The Cat without upticks is like watching a sit-com without the laugh track.
I don’t know what to like or not.
Please lead the way, dickless upticks.
Re the pollies pay rise, they will plead that the Remuneration Tribunal is an “independent” body established with bi-partisan support to remove the controversy from Parliamentary pay rises (and those for judges and others covered by the Tribunal).
They will quietly brush over the appointment process for members of the Tribunal (appointed by the Governor-General, presumably on the advice of the Executive Council), and that their longevity in the job would then rely on the good-will of the Executive Council.
Pleas that the GG does it all off his own bat could be made, and might (or might not) have some credibility – for you to judge.
I prefer that they make the decision themselves, openly, and face the reaction.
It’s pretty good but how does the Washington Doctrine or Monroe Doctrine fit in with turning India and Russia against China? Or with intervening on behalf of Taiwan? Moreover, there is simply the practical matter of overtures to Russia very likely now falling on deaf ears re China. BRICS+ is also going to be economically beneficial to Russia and India, not merely China, so not sure why India would want to intervene on US’s behalf in any dispute involving Taiwan.
A Marine female pilot and two others Marines die and below is the quality of the comment from KD.
Pathetic.
“Now awaiting findings that:
a. Parallel parking should not have been attempted by Captain Eleanor under any circumstances; or
b. A garbage truck 20 times larger than the Osprey was involved yet not seen prior to the stack”.
Just looked at the road closures for the Sydney marathon on Sunday 17th of Sept.
Geez louise.
Unless you’re participating, a good day to stay put.
Uniparty swampies like to pay themselves well.
The Remuneration Tribunal should be made up of a pensioner, a DSP recipient, a tradie, a fish and chip shop owner, a publican, a stay at home mother, and a mine worker.
Aha:
c. The captain was doing her lippy at the time;
d. A stiletto heel slipped on the ‘go’ pedal;
e. She mistook an MV-22 Osprey for a Honda Jazz;
f. A daddy longlegs appeared on the dashboard; or
g. She ignored the mansplaining.
They always bleat that refrain – yet for some inexplicable reason, controversy inevitably ensues once people find out. Then again, what did those useless frauds at the ALPBC just gift themselves? Oh, that’s right …
He’s been in the line for a while now. No one in front of him left. Getting to the real dregs of R-G-R.
Meanwhile, the elderly rot in their homes waiting for something as simple as a cleaner.
My Aged Care is a bureaucratic failure (is there ever a success).
In the end, we’ve just decided to pay for a cleaner from mum and dad out of our pockets. There are many people who aren’t in that position. But it has been an interesting experiment in testing the wonders of government “services”.
Meanwhile the expensive ads still run on TV. False advertising of course, but try applying the same blowtorch that’s used on private businesses.
Ditch the renumeration tribunal and allow the pollies to set their own salaries. Effective only on day one of the next term.
How to run a country into the ground. A Trot, a Dim Chalmers, oh I forgot the Dr, write a book about a bloke who also ran the country into the ground and likes clocks to get it, a turtlehead that believes in fairytales, add other useless parasites who have form in not having a clue and 90% of the voters who think Googlebox is real and there it is. As I’ve said before the kittahs here could run the country before smoko better and thats without trying. Time for gardening, pilates, cooking, looking after loved ones, whats not to like. Leave it to us blokes to make things.
Dover
There was a recent issue between Russia and China over the use of Yuan. Russia has been accumulating Yuan from sales of oil etc. Russia wanted to convert the currency in order to pay for other imports, but the Chinese informed them that they could only use those funds in China for Chinese goods.
This shit is not going to work and can’t work. The ghoulish Chinese regime is absolutely sucking them dry.
Putin needs to stop the war, get on his hands and knees, apologize profusely to the West for causing all this trouble, and beg to be allowed back into the community of nations. He needs to get on his hands and knees, sobbing tearfully, because of the asshat he’s been for the past couple of years. This relationship with China is simply not going to work, as they’re gouging Russia at every turn. Trump will forgive him, but I’m not sure he can wait though.
My Nanna went into Inala village in Blackburn South (run by the Salvos) of her own volition after my grandfather died in the second half of the seventies and always seemed happy with her choice until her body gave out just beyond the century mark. Many of her friends were there before her.
I remember getting to see the telephone switchboard – complete with operator and lots of sockets, plugs and cables. Direct-dial was subsequently installed.
What happened since then?
If this is true he will return, but if its isn’t, he’ll stay on the present course.
Drumgold spent a fair bit of time in office arguing (unsuccessfully) for pay parity with the Supreme Court judges and for ‘judges super’.
His claim of lack of procedural fairness would pretend that he wasn’t able to respond to the adverse findings notice during the enquiry (he was).
I have no doubt his separation arrangements weren’t being cooked up for at least several weeks before the report was tabled.
Chalmers is anti productivity.
Keating was all about raising productivity.
Chalmers is nothing like Keating.
Here is Jane ‘truculent turds’ Caro livid that the ABFC realises she has no qualifications to speak on education:. H/T Michael Smith News
The other thing is I don’t believe half the stuff that is said about China.
It is true – all of it, and he will return with that bushy tail down and in between his hind legs. The Russian economy is being bulldozed by the Chinese ghouls. He needs to realize that the only friends he really has are the US and the other parts of the West. BRICS is total bullshit that can’t work and the mighty greenback reign supreme even with a corrupt dunce in the White House.
Been doing that for quite a while for my old mum. The plus is that the cleaners are a nice family and my artist mum has been helping their teenage daughter with her art interests. They also keep an eye on her, which I can’t do being several hours away by car.
When she had a fall earlier this year and ended up in the local base hospital she wound up in the rehab ward. I was visiting and was talking with her and mentioned her cleaners had arrived while I was there. Elderly lady in bed opposite calls me over. She’d been trying to get someone, anyone, to clean for for ages, straight fee for service since she could pay. Hadn’t been able to find anyone. So I gave her my email and then passed on the contact details of the family with the cleaning business. I don’t know what then transpired, but it was an interesting datum.
Today I was at the shopping centre, walked past a dollar shop. They had several staff wanted adverts stuck to the inside of their windows. I was wondering to myself why so many shops are having trouble getting staff. And old people getting cleaners, even when they can pay. I don’t know why.
Watters asserting that biden personally supervised the DOJ’s prosecutions of Trump because Trump becoming POTUS again was a threat to democracy. Apart from the sickening irony of this I’m in 2 minds about it. There is no doubt biden is an absolute creep and would have no hesitation doing this. But his dementia is advanced so other shits must be largely running things.
99% of ‘Covid deaths’ not primarily caused by the virus, CDC data shows
Oh yeah, the Chinese wouldn’t dream of taking advantage of the situation, because they’re so decent and above board.
Trumps Nephew
@ForgiatoBlow47
Breaking: Who Gave The Democrat Party The Authority To Speak For Black America?
Increasingly I think Hawke/Keating were just the beneficiaries of the global effects of the general Reagan/Thatcher period. Albo and Chalmers won’t be so lucky and if China falls out bed it could be positively ugly.
He knows what’s going on and would’ve given the greenlight. Dementia wants him dead because it’s the only way he can stay in office under his personal circumstances otherwise the party would nix him in a flash.
Wherever there is a human need there are the leeches sucking the system dry
It’s what Australia is built on.
Government granted licence & cartels.
That was from a sf story by Mark Clifton. He understood the military and government.
Got a rise out of Origin today on talkback. I said their plan to close Eraring and replace it with a 420MW battery which would power Newcastle for 2 hours was straight out of the cannon-brookes playbook. I then went on to describe the bearded bastard’s destruction of AGL with Liddell closing, Bayswater which is only slightly smaller than Eraring, to be closed well ahead of schedule, Loy Yang as well and that the snot had stopped them from dividing their fossils from their other assets so someone else could not take them over and keep them running.
Origin apparently thought I said cannon-brookes had done this with them and denied he had any involvement with them. Brent Bultitude read out their indignant email with some amusement.
It’s being gamed too, Tinta. I know a couple who are getting gardening and cleaning services because they have been assessed as needing them.
They don’t. Why do I know? I’m ashamed to say they’re family members.
Just watched Sleazy handball a difficult question about airline competition to his Transport Minister.
You’re the Prime Minister you unutterable skunk!
Bear, I met up briefly with a bigtime property developer as I was coming out of a cafe this arvo. I’ve met him through other friends but don’t really know him that much. The dude is big time. We got to talking and I asked him what he was up to, and he described the various developments. I asked him if he was worried about China. He appeared to have no freaking idea. It shocks me how folks make so much money as it appears to be pot luck at times. I can’t imagine any investment of a meaningful size where I can’t exit in a split second. These dudes have lead time of years over years. How would you not know about stuff like this when the impact could be massive? Even if you can’t pull the trigger and get out, you don’t know the biggest macro risk currently working its way through the system? it just shocks me.
Random thought: As electricity ascends from the everyday to the luxury category, especially for those with a fixed income, will we see a measurable increase in hospitalisation due to falls in the home? Anecdotal evidence suggests that such accidents amongst old duffers can exacerbate other medical conditions, leading to long (expensive for the taxpayer) stays.
Might those Year Zero feckers be contributing to the drain on the public purse in other areas (like the already sick health system), and is anyone likely to put 2 and 2 together?
Oracle question of course.
yeah, yeah … all caused by epistemic violence
bought the kid an MG ?
bad parent vicki … bad parent
Oh….and here’s a distraction squirrel. The land of the Long White Shroud as our seventh state.
It will be aliens next. Anything to take the focus off that despicable pay rise.
Lol. I’m Rabz-ing in his absence.
Is it too early for some HOPs and earth salting? 😀
Emerald Robinson
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Democrats are busy indicting GOP lawyers for the crime of offering legal advice to Trump — but you think you’re going to vote in a free election in 15 months?
‘Ban the Jab’ Movement Grows as Multiple Florida Counties Join Forces to Outlaw Covid Vaccines
Oops. Didn’t see Bruce’s comment before I posted. No connection. Apologies if my dribble was a little callous, Bruce.
But his dementia is advanced so other shits must be largely running things.
And the ‘other shits’ are the Neocons who are the US Warmongers
I don’t see it happening. Given the last 20 years I don’t think the West has shown themselves as better friends than China. BRICS will work very fine as a trading bloc. Whether they develop a BRICS currency that rivals the USD is neither here nor there right now. I think most of them will just be happy to trade in their own currency and be able to navigate around any US sanctions regime.
Minns is having a come to Jesus moment.
Eraring decision just days away (Ncl local news, 28 Apr)
If Labor in NSW are thinking like this it means the poop is about to hit the fan in great torrents and they don’t want it to splash onto them. Which is interesting since their Federal Labor colleague Mr Bowen is pushing hard for the poop fan torrents spraying.
Children’s Health Defense
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‘Pfizer Took My Career Away’
Tim McAdams, a 59-year-old pilot, health enthusiast, husband and father was content with his job training pilots for Airbus Helicopters — a job he held for over a decade — until Airbus mandated the COVID-19 vaccine for its employees.
Tim received his first Pfizer shot on Oct. 17, 2021, and the second on Nov. 7, 2021. Three weeks later he had two cerebellar strokes, a rare stroke in the cerebellum that accounts for only 1-4% of total strokes.
In the hospital, the McAdams asked the doctors repeatedly what could have caused this rare event, but “they always shrugged.” Soon after, Tim started suffering from repeated brain swelling, resulting in a craniectomy and over 80 days in the hospital. He also had double pneumonia, lung failure, and vocal cord damage from a tracheotomy and feeding tube.
Today, Tim is still working to recover from the injury he received, and is unable to fly due to the physical limitations he now suffers from.
Bruce, in answer to your question…no one wants to work.
Back in the early 90’s, uni students were hoovering up cleaning and gardening jobs to augment their meagre allowances. Baby sitting, house sitting, moving piles of rocks…all the little cards in the window disappeared in an instant. Jobs filled in a day or two.
Now…bleh. Why work?
I can tell them why. All my kids worked in HS and at Uni. They are all now multimillionaires. You can’t teach it, you can only train it.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Remember that time when Nobel Prize Winner Prof. Luc Montagnier said:
“The Covid Vaccine Is Creating The Variants” and that the vax campaign is “a scientific error as well as a medical error. It’s an unacceptable mistake”??
It sure seems like he was absolutely right.
The last the Chinese tried something like this, the result was the Opium Wars.
Of course they’d take advantage of the situation.
The COVID Censorship Chain of Command
No way would I vote YES to that. We have ample trouble with our own indigenes there is no way I want us to have anything to do with M?oris as well. They will also want their Voice and $30+ billion per year. No, no and no.
No worries Muddy. Gravity sucks.
My old mum is on the pension, having been an artist almost her whole life. Art is not conducive to earning money (unless you are a lefty, which she’s not), and she has no real understanding of the concept of money anyway. I look after her finances now that my stepfather is in God’s hands. She’s very intelligent, her dad was a Prof of chemical engineering, but financial stuff just defeats her, it’s an interesting mental blindness.
On the other hand she’s been thoroughly screwed by Centrelink over many years, plus the robodebt thing, so I have no problem with her taking Caesar’s dime now. I had a major fight with Centrelink last year and they eventually surrendered abjectly. But I didn’t have the energy to chase them for previous owings. Life is too short to waste on such stupid stuff.
MyAgedCare has helped with nice ladies who take her shopping. They’re from Anglicare. So I’m not especially agin MyAgedCare, although they can be painful at times.
China has turned many countries in client states.
Even ones with nukes.
I saw a comment on this somewhere else today where this was noted by a US person: We are now at the point where the Soviet Union was in the 70s.
If I remember correctly USSR in the 70s had a succession of decrepit septuagenarian General Secretaries who seemed to be figureheads while shadow committees ran the empire. A death of each would be suspected for ages before it was made public.
Looking at the current US president and the octogenarian congress I think the Americans are even worse.
As client states.
Not in.
Farrrrk.
Into client states.
I have read that Victoria Nuland and husband Robert Kalgan are directing the US foreign policy and Secretary Blinken is just doing as he is told.
Wild that UK’s most lucrative export in the 19th C was opium. Can’t blame the Chinese for not wanting any of it.
I saw a comment on this somewhere else today where this was noted by a US person: We are now at the point where the Soviet Union was in the 70s.
If I remember correctly USSR in the 70s had a succession of decrepit septuagenarian General Secretaries who seemed to be figureheads while shadow committees ran the empire. A death of each would be suspected for ages before it was made public.
Looking at the current US president and the octogenarian congress I think the Americans are even worse.
I’ve thought the same. Kerry is the one I particularly despise atm.
Add ten years. We’ve got Andropov in the White House.
And he keeps dropping off.
We won’t get a Gorbachev. No one in the West is that sane.
China is clearly not going great at the moment.
But I’m not ultra bearish.
They continue to buy energy at a big discount which is a huge release valve with any economy.
On the weekend I drove past Wallerawang and Mount Piper power stations near Lithgow. Both had steaming cooling towers so they are still working. Hoping they keep going for decades until we get nuclear power.
If the US wanted the Chinese economy to really crater, they’d work out a cease fire in Ukraine and remove all the sanctions on Russian energy.
Russian energy discount removed, look out.
They had to pay for the tea with something. There wasn’t anything the Chinese much wanted from them. So to pay for their tea addiction problem they created an opium addiction problem in China. Poms are very pragmatic.
I have no idea why Britain became so obsessed with a tasteless drink. Yet their obsession was so great it caused actual wars.
Same as the NDIS — it has blown out because the legislation was so loosey goosey that it virtually allows anyone on there. I was at a funeral and ran across a bloke I’ve known for almost 50 years — he had twins about 3 years ago via IVF (He is 73, his wife was 59 at the time of the birth) One of the little fellas is a little slow — The bloke said “Oh we’ve got NDIS funding, about $20,000.00 we don’t really need it” I said “well why did you take it” he said well they offered it. This is a couple who have very very high paying jobs in the public service and are extremely well off — the child is not severely disabled, the child is a little slow in his milestones. I was just so angry, I didn’t make a scene but I certainly made my point.
But imagine she 59 now 62, he now 73 — and dear little fellas are 3 years old — oh well I guess it takes all kinds but makes me think; just because you can, should you?
New Zealand was very nearly part of Federation in 1901, Western Australia went in, kicking, screaming and protesting loudly.
LOved this:
Ah, the Festering Zombie Party: Low risk for low return.
I think NDIS was Cloward-Pivening by the TLS.
It’s pretty amazing to see black America’s reaction to the Trump mugshot.
Hope it’s long lasting.
On the Kiwis… as I understand it, all they have to do is agree to join and they are in.
Granted, that would be “interesting” politically…
TLS didn’t/doesn’t give a tinker’s cuss for the disabled, she was leaving a economic time-bomb for the inevitable Liberal government – remember the thing wasn’t even funded by TLS and the rat-looking-through-a-toilet-brush – it was a disaster from the get-go and brought in a year early by the screeching banshee Jenny Macklin trying to put glitter on that turd of a government.
When Gramps becomes a popsicle: UK winter plan for heat pumps is “Turn them off at night”
I think I see a problem here.
I’d suggest making him hunt for the food.
Excellent suggestion.
Maoris vs aboriginals…I think I know which side I’d back.
The CCP could walk all over the present US admin but I don’t think Putin will take this lying down.
And the Chinese still have their favourite issue, “unequal treaties”, with Russia over major parts of the Russian Far East. Remember they came close to war along the Ussuri River (between Manchuria and Siberia) in 1969.
If Putin stumbles, the Chinese will be in there so fast …
“Mr Pasin said his staffers were “left shaken and fearing for their safety”.
Gaaaah! There were more staff than nutter. Bloody well drop your nads and swarm the turd. Sheesh.
How so? Wouldn’t there need to be referenda in each country before the union can proceed?
Oh, yes. Ended with another of those “unequal treaties”.
Calli,
you’re mentioning the Uni students in the nineties hoovering the cleaning jobs etc. Through the sixties, seventies and eighties, uni students used to be the go to for fruit and veg picking. The very jobs that are being filled with overseas and gap year students, amongst others.
The oz students used to come back from summer hols fit, tanned and with a pocketful of money. It was a badge of honour at the time.
Now, they can’t even get out of their own way.
Mmm…what choice does he have?
They got us.
Cool!
The First Photographs Ever Taken of Hawai’i (Including Maui) 1860-1960 by Brother Bertram [Hawaii]
And the Chinese still have their favourite issue, “unequal treaties”,
Something that all Chinese children have drummed into them from the age of five.
I think the first time most DFAT & State Department staff learn about them is when they arrive at the China desk in their respective organisations.
Not trade with the CCP again. Pretty soon the Chinese will run out of trading partners or sympathetic countries.
I wonder if all the BRICS think that they will be in charge, they will learn soon that the real bosses are going to be CCP. I don’t see this alliance working long once the CCP start throwing their weight around.
Pretty soon the Chinese will run out of trading partners or sympathetic countries.
You’re kidding right?
Maoris vs aboriginals…I think I know which side I’d back.
It’s one sided. Seen it real time, not good.
The voice may fix it.
I will see myself out
I have no idea why Britain became so obsessed with a tasteless drink. Yet their obsession was so great it caused actual wars.
The Chinese themselves drink a lot of this ‘tasteless drink’. Chinese tea is very nice with a Chinese meal. Maybe try it sometime.
That’s not a viable option for them atm.
Maoris vs aboriginals
I was at the Forster RSL when one of these kicked off.
Scary shit man.
Women fighting and everything.
Bruce of Newcastle at 7:17 – I am reading “A Spendid Exchange”, basically the history of trade from prehistory onwards. The author is a trained neurosurgeon who became an author after getting published as a self taught finance guy. Highly recommended.
A Maori told me that the British had to sign a treaty because they knew the Maori would be excellent guerilla warriors and would not give up. The geography certainly helped in that regard. Even in NZ movies the Maori are portrayed as fearsome and dogged individuals. Compare that to the way aborigines here are portrayed.
A park in Northbridge occasionally provides some aboriginals v Africans entertainment. Don’t know if this provides any form guide.
Just saw on Bolt Rowan Dean say that Catholic bishops are pushing the YES vote. This means that last Sunday at Mass praying for the success of the referendum has been authorised from above. I suppose it will not make any difference for me to get into the priest’s ear.
What’s more Rowan is more accurate than the bishops about the individual responsibility and accountability in Catholicism. What is even more disturbing, this is interference in a political process that should not be undertaken by the church.
There is an article in the Mail (won’t link, easy to find) about some Canadian First Nations Grifter using coffee as a descriptor as to why it doesn’t matter how pale you are. It’s all about the feelz. She conveniently keeps calling “coffee with milk”, still coffee.
I mentioned yonks ago that, while coffee is black, when you add milk, it ALWAYS called WHITE coffee. No comments allowed, of course.